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- >THE% '• >,. vfAnd The Burleson County LedgeríTA Weekly Newspaper Devoted Unreservedly to the Development and Upbuilding of Burleson County.The Caldwell News. Vol. 3, No. 17.CALDWELL, BURLESON COUNTY, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 25, 1930.Burleson Co. Ledger, Vol 45, Nft 5.COUNCIL CONTRACTS FOR MORE STREET PAVINGirII!Power Plant Prospects Brighter Here During the Week BIDS ON TWORESIDENTIALOFFER MADECITY RECENTLYLOOK* GOODProposition Before Council ForConsideration and DefiniteActionLike a bolt of thunder out of aclear sky a machinery firm wellknown ami thought of over the coun-try made the City Council a propor-tion Tuesday to install a municipallight and power pian' here that fromwhat investigations that have beenmade, it would be very difficult toturn down.The company asks little or nomoney, all it wants is the support ofthe user* of current and a plant ofnecessary size and efficiency will l>einstalled ready to go with the invest-ment of \ery "little money. without anysecurity other than the plant itselfwhich will In- paid fur out of earningsmonthly over a pe: tod "f six to eightyear .The company means business and isready today or tomorrow to sign anagreement and begin at once to in-stalling the plant.Their representative spent all dayTuesday here going over the matterwith th • C'«un< il to acquaint it withtlie benefits ami possibilities and con-vince it that they mean business.The Council looks upon the projectwith so much favor, that three mem-bers. C. E. Gromartie, Joseph Radyand one or two interested citizensmade a trip Wednesday to Hiarneand Teague, where municipal plantsare in operation to investigate theirmerits and advantages and to deter-mine in their minds more fujly whatto do. The party left Wednesday atnoon and returned that night about12:00 a m 250 miles were traveledand the city official of those citieswere interviewed and their plantswere inspected.Seeing is convincing. The factsenumerated were eye openers. Ser-vice and profits are the two outstandintr things featured. Plants in bothcities are making money. They arehelping to liuild, pay taxes, etc. Notthe least criticism was offered.Encouragement wa met everywhere.They recommended the plant to i'nld-well people.Hcarne has one of the most idealand hest equipped plants in the state.It i> making money. Hcarne's profitla^t year from lights and water wasliirhH $17.400.00 plus$8.000.00 free lights to city and $8,-400.00 for water. Its tax rate is $1.10against our $1.47. The 10 cen ,covered the large amount of paving«lone, which will be knocked off ne . tyear, we understand.Teague's plant commenced aboutChristmas and is paying off rightalong Their officials are proud oftheir plant. They speak in the highestterms of the company that made itpossible, said they never dealt withfairer, squarer people and said neverlie afraid to do business with them.Hearne and Teague are both willlighte.l cities. They have grown andgone forward. They are living adver-tising examples of whab power aplenty means to cities. It will payany city well t nrstooa. orwee gthttany citizen well to visit cither cityand look the plants over for theirsatisfaction. There are many others,but the Council did not have time tomake other visits.The Council was well met at eachplace and were given reliable information in detail. They returnedhome greatly impressed and inspiredfully convinced that a plant here de-serves consideration.What to do is now under consider-ation. If the local citizens want toh in the matter, they should getbehind the Council. There is a strongdemand for a local plant and now isthe time of all times to ¿jot togetherand get it. It is possible at once.Action should be taken immediately.Rev. CarringtonAnnounces ForJustice No. 2We are authorized to announce thecandidacy of Rev. E. E. Carrington,of Providence, for the office of Jus-tice of the Peace of Precinct No. 2,subject to the action of the Demo-cratic primary in July.Rev. Carrington has been a citizenof the county for a long number rtfyears and is widely known over thecounty especially in his precinct. Heis a gentleman of honesty, integrity,and ability and i< fully capable of dis-charging the special duties of theJustice's office.While the office is not enumerativo,he aspires to it with the desire toserve the county and states thai hewill greatly appreciate the supportand votes of the people and pledge-to give his time and attention to theoffice.PUBLICSQUARETO BE OPEN TOTRAFFIC SOONTeague*s Municipal PlantBrings City Into LightEARNINGS AREPAYING COSTEVERY MONTHPlant Establishing Splendid Re-cord First Four MonthsOperationSome four months ago the pro-gressive city of Teague, Texas, wasbrought from a state of darkness tolight through the establishment of amunicipal electric plant which alreadyhas set a record of which the TeagueCALDWELL LADYANNOUNCES FORCODNTY OFFICEMrs. Elsie Curlin Milroy ComesOut This Week For SchoolSuperintendentIn tv.e political announcement fcol-umn of Malay's New- appears the for-mal announcement of Mrs. Elsie Cur-ilin Mil toy a.- a candidate for the of-fice of i ounty School Superintendent,citizens are justifiably proud. To that j 3Ut'A*-'' . " 1 '' f;™.ul ^e Demo-time Teague could not boast of Its' ® «July - '•streetHOLLYWOOD.FADcraticat night, as the city lighting ¡ The uecision <>t Mrs. Milroy tosy- • m consisted of about 100 street make Uie race tor the offu— addslights of from r>0 to 100 watt size. ! interest to local county politics.Now at a very little higher cost; Mi- Milroy is a daugnter of theTeague is one of the best* lighted' 'ate ' Curlin, a pioneer citizenMrs. E. I>. • 'rutchfield of SanAntonio, visited her parents, Mr. andMrs. W M. Stone, the past'week. Shewas accompanied home by her mother,Mrs. Stone, and Aunt, Mrs. Allison,of Birmingham, Alabama. Mr. Stoneleft Saturday night for a visit withthem in San Antonio.... o— ——Mrs. T. S. Reed (nee Minn RubyOompton) formerly of this city andtwo daughters, Misses Mary andRubio, of Beaumont are visitors inthe J. Earl Porter home for a day ortwo. They stopped off here while ontheir way to Belton to take part ina musical entertainment at BaylorCollege. One of the young ladies, whola a very talented musician, rendereda violin aolo daring the band concertat IIm school auditorium last night.Only a few more days and thepublic square which has been treatedto a course of concrete and asphaltwill la* opened to regular traffic. Thebalance of the concrete base wasfinished yesterday and now work oftopping with asphalt is in progressand as ;•-non as that part of the jobi; out of the way, trafic will be turn-ed on it.The square which has been in thedirt and mud for years, l as taken ona city-like, pleasing and more respect-able appearance in every way and isbeing more admired every day.Probably four or five more daysv. ill witness the completion of theinch and half a«pha!t topping whenthe streets can In* used. The blockscompleted will be opened to traffas fast as they are finished. Therewill be no dela* opening after thetopping: for the asphalt is l>encfittedwith weight and use.Some little trimming, cleaning andfinishing touches will be necessarybefore the improvement will be turn<'d over to the city. Some corners willhave to be filled in and concretedSome steps will have to be placed onthe sidewalk approaches. Around the ¡directcourt house curb cement will have to , tors,be placed for steps to fill in the space j Teagusmall cities in Texas, the streets be-I ing systematically lighted with 150j pole lights unci a white way system¡along the main street. The new muni-cipal plunt there is furnishing freeservice to churches and city parks.It has already reduced operating ex-penses of the municipal water-works$350 per month or an average of$4,000 a year, is paying for itself andlaying aside a reserve fund.This is being done with no specialcampaign for new customers. Outof a total of about 700 electric con-nection-. in Teague, the municipalplant has more than 4i>0 and m .eare (K'ing added as rapidly as thecity crew can handle the necessarywork. The Texas Utility Companynow serves Teague also.A'tout a year ago Teague citizensbecame interested in a municipalclectric light and power plant and¡individual citizens subscribed a fundof more t'"Mi .jL!5,Gi)0 to be used ashe initial payment. This was never |j used, however, as the plant was in ;stalled to be paid for out of its own ;1 earnings, and its first four months ||of operation indicate that the earn-ings will retire the indebtedness a¡gainst the system in record time.Three 1X0 h. p. Fairbanks MorseDie -sel • are prime movers in the!i plant, which is complete and modern' in every way. These engines arennet ted to.150 Kva. generaleft. Some of the intersecting streetswill have to be graded to a level withthe pavement.Work has been in progress four orfive weeks. Outside of on - or twodays at the beginning ideal weatherprevailed.The majority of the citizens intouch with the work seem wellpleased. Many have volunteered to express their satisfaction. Visitors herehave complimented the civic enter-prise of the citizens and expresseditisfaction of type of constructionand design.has succesful'.y and pro-Local MethodistPastor In CrockettLast Sunday the Methodist pastor,Rev. W. E. llassler, closed his seriesof Pre Raster services with theEaster morning message. On thatSunday, the Methodist church enjoyedhaving the largest number in attend-ance in Sunday School they have hadin several years. It was a record day.Five were received into the church,and at the morning hour the pastorbaptized si\ children. At the eveninghour, the presiding elder. Rev. L. H.Mnthison, preached to a splendid con-gregation, alter which he conductedthe second quarterly conference. Dur-mir the various reports of the churchUrv. Mnthison noted the fact that innil bis rounds, he had not held aquarterly con fere, ice which had suchcomplete reports in all lines of thechurch.Monday morning the pastor left forCrocket' * where he is assisting theCrocket' preacher, Rev. P. T. Ramsey,in a revival meeting. Word comesthat Rev. llassler is having greatcrowds of children in his childrenservices.There will be no preaching servicesSunday at the local Methodist church,and it is the wishes of the pastor thatmembers attend other services inabsence.fI Miss>d inTitile Jahnke spent the weak-Houston visiting friends.fitably operated its water works foia number of years. Now both thewater works and the electric lightplant are operated with the samenumber of engineers which makes asaving to the water works of $350a month since two thirds of thesalaries are charged to the electricsystem. The indebtedness against theentire system is being retired by thecity at approximately the former an-nual cost of current for street light-ing and water pumping, and out ofthe earnings of the plant instead ofby taxation.Another benefit Teague citizens arereceiving from their new plant Is amuch lower electric rate than former-ly received. The starting rate forelectric current for domestic use was16 cents per kilowatt hour. This wasreduced to 14 cents after a contracthad been entered into for the munici-pal plant, whose starting rate now is10 cents.The water rates are $1.50 mini-mum. Electric rates are about thesame as those filed with the city bythe competing company in complyingwith a city ordinance requiring rateschedules to be filed with the city.Teague's utilities are valued at$¿75,000—$150,000 for water works 1and distributing system and $125,000 jfor the light plunt and distributingsystem. Mayor S. W. Robinson, whose iefforts resulted in the municipalplant, was swept into office in thecity primary thir. year by a majority-over both of his opponents, which i--•nn indication of the favor the city iowned plant has met.City Manager F. F. Sims, who hasdirect charge of the utilities is astrong ludiever in municipal ownership. H. II. Tyus is chief engineer ai ithe plant. Assistants are R. B.Knighton and Ci. E. Menge, and T. ¡"B. Toke is electrician.Teague is now just 25 years oldand has a population of approxomate-ly 4,500. It is a division point on theTrinity & Brazos Valley Railroad.The progressive citizenship, churches,schools, two strong bunks and thefact that there is not now a vacantresidence there, ate the boast of theMilroy is a daugnterCurlin, a pioneerof tc s c ty. where <he was born andreared and r;a.- trade her home prac-tically all of her life. She is a grad-uate of the lo< al high school, and at-tended the ' 'o!!e"e of Industrial Arts,a state >chool at ¡Jenton, where shereceived a permanent teacher's cer-tificate. and where she has only afew more months to attend to securea degree.She has seven years experience asu teacher, at Anson. Navasota and>ere. In 1923 she was appointed toserve Shelby county as Home Demon-station agent, work among womensimilar to the County Agent's dutieshere, which is carried on principallythrough the schools.While serving Shelby county, she• arried 500 boys and girls on a 1,000mile tour of Texas which lasted 17days. The project was sponsored and■arried to a successful conclusion byMrs. Milroy. The tour was commend-ed and given wide publicity by thestate pr-iss, that the narticipants re-ceived invitations front the DallasFar Association and Louisiana StateFair Association to be their guestswith all expenses paid. Later she was<elei ;ed to act a* educational lecturerand demonstrator for a large Hous-ton corporation. She was also en-gaged as a lecturer on three differentoccasions at the A & M. College.I making her announcement. Mrs.Milroy desires to make the follow-ing -ratement: "After considering thesolicitations of friends, I have decidedto seek the office of county schoolsuperintendent. I believe that theoffice can be efficiently filled by awoman. This is not a statementmade at random, it is based on actualfacts which have occurred in othercounties of this state and in manyother states. Texas has a large num-ber of women in that position, andthe number increases each year. Manyof these have held offici many years.Some of the neighboring counties withwomen county superintendents are:Milam, Falls, Grimes, Travis, Cald-well, Walker, Fort Bend, San Jacinto.Houston, Leon, Jefferson, Hays, andothers. Most of these women aremarried and have been re-elected sev-era! times. In the state of Arizonaonly one man holds the schoolsuperintendent's office."Mrs. Milroy solicits the earneston ¡deration of her candidacy by allthe qualified voters of the county inthe coming election. She states thatshe will appreicate their votes andipport, and pledges the best effortspossible for the good of the schoolsand for a capable and thorough ad-ministration.gear' is the new ¿'Gypsy Cap,"shown here on the pretty headof Irene . Delroy, \ whohas |re-cently gone cinema from Broad-way.—(Herbert Photos, N.*Y.)Regular ArmyOfficer To BeHere MondayStewart D. Hervey, captain In-fantry unit instructor of the regulararmy, announces that he will visitthis city Monday to address the youngmen of the city and county interestedin the Civilian Military TrainingCamp to be held this summer by thegovernment.He is especially interested in boysover seventeen years of age. Themeeting will be held between thehours of 10:30 and noon. The meet-ing will be at the Court House. A,•J. Prasatik, county superintendent, ischairman.AGED CITIZENOF COUNTYDIES HERESHEETS UPHughes Engineering Compan/Gets Work If PropertyOwners SignHighway PeopleTells CommitteeTo Vote Bonds(Continued on paga five)1'he Spanish Trail committee whichwent to Austin Tuesday to appearIn tore the Highway Commission tortain its policy governing theold San Antonio" road through thecounties, gained very little encourage-ment. The body told the local com-mittee that unless special road bondsare voted nothing could be expectedfrom the state, not even for per-manent drainage structures. In otherwords the county must put up theirpart in order for the state and Fed-eral governments to spend any moneyin the county.Mrs. Lawrence Fleckenstein, whodied Friday at 5 o'clock p. m., waslaid to rest in the St. Mary's ceme-tery Saturday at 4 o'clock, FatherHealy conducted the funeral services.Mrs. Fleckenstein was born in Austriasome 68 years years ago and at theage of eighteen she came to this coun-try and settled near Bryan with herparents. Soon afterwards she wasmarried to Michial Fitzgerald andto this union were born three chil-dren, one of which died in infancy.The two surviving are Mrs. TomMachann of Cedar Creek and Mrs.Ed Drescher of Caldwell. She after-wards was married to Mr. LawrenceFleckenstein, who proceeded his wifein death some two vears ago. Therewere three children by this union,Albert of Houston, Lawrence ofBryan and Mrs. Herman Loehr ofCook's Point, and two step-daughters,Mrs. Chas. Tonn and Mrs. Joe Rickeof Houston. There are also eighteengrandchildren and two great grand-children who among a host of otherrelatives and friends mourn her pass-ing.Fo. many years she had been inill health and for the past fifteenmonths she had been confined to herbed, a patient sufferer of intensepain.Mrs. Mary Weinttle and daughter,Mr. and Mrs. F trunk Regmond, andMrs. Joe KalineV. of Bryan and Ottoand Kdwaid Drescher were among theout-of-town relatives and friends whoattended the funeral. o Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Turner ofBrow.¡wood came in Saturday to visitMr. and Mrs. Lee Broaddus. Mr. Tur-ner returned Monday but Mrs. Tur-ner and babe will remain for a further visit. - —-'O1 • ■■ -The teachers spent the holidnya attheir respective homes during theSan Jacinto holidays: Miss Fletcherat Giddings, Miss Blair at Denton,~ ias Benson at Copperal, and Missat Martindale.Bids on paving Fox stret andpossibly Buck street, were receivedand opened Tuesday night by the CityCouncil and a paving contract wa:iawarded the Hughes EngineeringCompany of Fort Worth. Work ia tobegin immediate]- providing the pro-perty owners sign up. The action ofthe City Council was based on thesigned petitions of property ownerson the two streets which showed thnta majority of the property ownersfavored extensions. On Fox streetthe property owners signified thatthey were largely in favor of paving.On Buck street not quite the sameamount of interest was shown, hutenough was shown to merit consider-ation and further efforts being madeto include it later, providing fundsheld out.Neither street is assured until thepaving contracts are signed by theproperty owners. Work of definitelysigning them up wil be commencedwithin the next few days just likewas done on the public square.Three kinds of bids were received.An asphalt to—Mn" over the presentgravel; concrete base and asphalt top-ping and on straight concrete.The low bid on asphalt topping onFox street was approximated $2.40pqr front foot. On concrete andasphalt it was $3.22 and for straightconcrete the bid was $3.41. Thesefigures are the result of calculationsmade from the bids made by the con-tractor who bid each item separately,for shapping, topping, etc.Good interest is shown in the ex-tentions. Everybod- asks daily ifthe two streets will be paved. Senti-ment everywhere is strong for ex-tending it. It seems highly desiredto get the two streets paved to givethe city the amount it at least shouldhave. Nothing can be determined,however, until the property ownersact. The Council is willing to go asfar as possible but will be limited onfinances. The blocks' arranged firstwill be the first one.* served, provid-ed as much as 10,000 square yards aresigned. There is an active demand topave the post office street. All thedemands will be considered and thework will go on as long as the citycan pay.After the square is completed, Mr.Hughes employes and equipment willbe here on expense and the work ofsigning up will have to be rushed sohe can ascertain what will be done. Ifproperty owners fail to respond withina reasonable length of time then hemost likely will move on. It is there-fore necessary for each one effectedto come to some definite decision now(or delay further paving.The bid figures are considered inline with the class of work.To show what cost the paving ofFox street will cost each propertyowner, based on a 100 foot front, willbe as follows or thereabout: 100 feetat $2.40 per front foot equals $240.00.If the owner is unable to pay cash hewill be given five payments; $48.00cash down and $48.00 each year. Fig-ured out by the month, it will be only$4.00 per month, interest to be added.This makes the paving come easyon those who arc not able to pay allcash. The notes are on or before andcan be taken up anytime.fLIONS GIVETWO COUNTYAGENTSSENDOFFThe Lions Club here gave W. S.ChUderss, a fellow I,ion, and outgoingcounty agent, and Mr. King, the in-coming county agent. May I t asplendid send off in recognition oftheir esteem and friendly feeling forthem. There were three or fourspeakers Tuesday evning during theoccasion. C. Ii. McDonald was theprincipal speaker. Rev. W. <>. Wright,H. G. Womble and others made -hurtt* Iks. Deepest regrets were expressedat Mr. Childerss' leaving. He waspraised in loudest terms for the ser-vice he ha<l rendered the county dur-ing the four and half years workhere.Mr. King, Incoming agent, waswarmly welcomed to the county andcity. He greatly impresses those whohave met him during visita here, andfull cooperation of the Lions Club hasbeen pledged him. At a talk to theLions he promised the best in him.• /